Prefix Identification in the Reading of Dutch Bisyllabic Words

Autor/inn/en	Verhoeven, Ludo; Schreuder, Robert; Haarman, Vera
Titel	Prefix Identification in the Reading of Dutch Bisyllabic Words
Quelle	In: Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 19 (2006) 7, S.651-668 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0922-4777
DOI	10.1007/s11145-005-1912-0
Schlagwörter	Reading Processes; Indo European Languages; Orthographic Symbols; Graphemes; Vowels; Grade 3; Grade 6; Adults; Decoding (Reading); Morphology (Languages); Foreign Countries; Phonology; Task Analysis; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Leseprozess; Indoeuropäisch; School year 03; 3. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 03; School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06; Dekodierung; Morphology; Morphologie; Ausland; Fonologie; Aufgabenanalyse; Niederlande
Abstract	Two experiments were conducted in order to explore the role of prefix identification in the reading of Dutch bisyllabic words. Although Dutch orthography is highly regular, several deviations from a one-to-one correspondence exist. A case in point is the grapheme E which can represent the vowels epsilon, e and oe in polysyllabic words. In Experiment 1, 33 third-grade children and 46 sixth-grade children were presented a list of randomly ordered bisyllabic words starting with the letter string BE and the first syllable being (1) a real prefix, (2) a phonological prefix (same sound pattern as a prefix), or (3) a pseudoprefix (sound pattern deviant from a prefix). Pseudowords starting with the same letter string were also presented. The results showed that words starting with a real or a phonological prefix were identified more accurately than words starting with a pseudoprefix. For the pseudowords, a predominant interpretation of the first part as a prefix was also evidenced. In Experiment 2, a lexical decision task was administered to 35 third-grade children, 33 sixth-grade children, and 26 adults. Words with a phonological prefix and words with a pseudoprefix were randomly presented along with other word types. The data showed both children and adults to retrieve words with phonological prefixes more quickly and more accurately than words with a pseudoprefix. The results are discussed with reference to current models of word decoding. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10